Starting a conversation

[ekevu123]

Maybe I am not seeing it, but how do I start a conversation? I set up the api keys for openai, anthropic, and others, and restarted the app, there is a button "Agents" where I would choose a model to prompt, but the search is empty.

[timconsidine]

I had some difficulty with this initially.
That button showed only "Agents" but after a couple of re-start of the app, I was then able to see models in the dropdown.
Well, 2 of the 3 sources I set api keys for (OpenRouter models do not display currently).

[ekevu123]

Interestingly, when I refresh the page, instead of agents, it quickly shows a model, and then switches back to "agents" with an empty dropdown.

Unfortunately, I couldn't resolve this with a few restarts.

[luckow]

Imho it is best to copy the librechat.example.yaml from here https://github.com/danny-avila/LibreChat/blob/main/librechat.example.yaml into your librechat.yaml and then copy the examples for your custom AI endpoints into it (eg https://www.librechat.ai/docs/configuration/librechat_yaml/ai_endpoints/mistral). Btw: openai & gemini also work for me without librechat.yaml.